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κατάτα^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.stretching, κ. τῶν χορδῶν （κατάστασις codd.) Arist.Aud.803a37.
2. esp. for the purpose of setting broken or dislocated bones, Hp.Fract.13 (pl.), Mochl.38.
3. torture, torment, D.H.7.68, Ael.Fr.276; “κατατάσεις τῆς ψυχῆς” Ph.2.599.
4. violent exertion, μετὰ φιλονικίας καὶ κ., cj. for -στάσεως in Pl.Lg. 796a.
II. extension in space, spreading, Id.Ti.58e (-στασιν cod.).
2. = ὁλκὴ εἰς τοὺς κάτω τόπους, Gal.19.461.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Plato, Laws, 796a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 58e
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 13
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.68
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